DataWatch Monarch Business Intelligence (BI) v5.1 admin section stored cross-site scripting

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DataWatch Monarch BI v5.1 admin section stored cross-site scripting 

Class:  Input Validation Error
Remote: Yes
Local:  No
Published: 26/06/2012
Credit: Raymond Rizk of Dionach Limited (vulns@xxxxxxxxxxx)

Vulnerable: DataWatch Monarch BI v5.1

DataWatch's  Monarch BI admin section is prone to a stored cross-site scripting 
vulnerability because it fails to sufficiently sanitize user-supplied data.

An attacker may leverage these issues to execute arbitrary script code in the 
browser of an unsuspecting user in the context of the affected site, steal 
cookie-based authentication credentials, and obtain sensitive information.

DataWatch Monarch BI v5.1 is known to be vulnerable. Other versions may also be 
vulnerable.

To exploit this issue, an attacker must entice an unsuspecting victim into 
following a malicious URI, for example:

Create a new Maintenance Task: 
POST http://127.0.0.1/ESAdmin/jsp/mainttaskact.jsp   
txtName=</option><script>alert(1)</script>

Then create a new or edit an existing   Maintenance process and add the 
malicious Maintenance Task to it. Click on Save. 
The script is executed when a user views or edits the created process 

Vendor informed and a patch was released on 12/07/2012. Vendor recommends 
installing the latest security updates.